The News Review:
- Microsoft Working With Chinese on XML Converter
- Microsoft Announces New ffice Security Tools
- Jack proves he means business
- Microsoft launches last-ditch effort to protect ffice
Microsoft Working With Chinese on XML Converter
Washington Post – May 22, 2007
The first version of the UF translation tool will be released on July 30 under the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license and posted on Sourceforge the popular open-source application development site Paoli said. It should be released in January 2008 and will work with Microsoft ffice 2003 and 2007. In a related development Microsoft said two beta plug-ins are now available that translate PowerPoint and Excel documents to the DF (penDocument Format) and vice versa. The plug-ins work for the Windows XP 2003 and 2007 versions of Excel and PowerPoint. The first translator for Word and DF was released in February and is now being refined Paoli said. Microsoft agreed last July to support open-source development projects that enable compatibility with DF which is used in open-source productivity suites such as penffice.
Microsoft Announces New ffice Security Tools
Redmond Channel Partner – May 22, 2007
The situation is a bit murkier in the case of ffice 2003 if only because File Block didn?t ship natively with ffice 2003. As a result administrators must first install Microsoft?s.
Jack proves he means business
Peterborough Today – May 22, 2007
They also organised a music festival produced a game and customised pens which were then sold at trade fairs around Peterborough. Jack said: ?My aim was to help the business develop and achieve its goals. Part of the assessment involved doing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in front of a panel of judges which I didn?t think went that well because my throat went and I couldn?t get my words out. ?Jack said the programme had given him an insight into how a business runs. ?It has shown me how real businesses do things and it has enabled me to put them into practise? he said. In the future Jack hopes to go to university to study business studies with the intention of running his own consultancy business in the future so that he can ?tell people what to do?. David Hutson head of business studies at Walton School which was one of five schools in Cambridgeshire to participate said: ?We always encourage students to take part in extra curricular activities and this has always been a fun programme for students to take part in.
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Microsoft launches last-ditch effort to protect ffice
CI – May 22, 2007
2007 19:57 Uhr Microsoft launches last-ditch effort to protect ffice Tacitly acknowledging that it cannot completely secure its ffice suite against attackers Microsoft Corp. Monday promoted a last-ditch defense that lets administrators block users from opening documents. File type restrictions are spelled out by editing the Windows registry or through Group Policy settings. Microsoft pitched File Block as a way to keep individual users from doing the enterprise harm. “Blocking specific ffice file types allows administrators to temporarily deny users the ability to open certain files such as when a threat of attack from a given ffice file type exists” the company said in a security advisory posted Monday… File type restrictions are spelled out by editing the Windows registry or through Group Policy settings. Microsoft pitched File Block as a way to keep individual users from doing the enterprise harm. “Blocking specific ffice file types allows administrators to temporarily deny users the ability to open certain files such as when a threat of attack from a given ffice file type exists” the company said in a security advisory posted Monday.